Job6:6 ("the white of an egg") the word for egg
(hallamuth') occurs nowhere else. It has been translated
"purslain" (R.V. marg.), and the whole phrase
"purslain-broth", i.e., broth made of that herb, proverbial for its insipidity; and hence an
insipid discourse. Job applies this
expression to the speech of Eliphaz as being insipid and dull. But the
common rendering, "the white of
an egg", may be satisfactorily maintained.